💫Top Areas• 28083 – Kannapolis | 3% vacancyMajor revitalization is underway in downtown Kannapolis with the North Carolina Research Campus, new retail, restaurants, and stadium district development bringing jobs and population growth.• 28025 – Concord | 8% vacancyHome to Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord Mills, and growing logistics corridors along I-85.

I eventually had to fire them. 

Hi BiggerPockets community My name is Jay Toluganti, and I’m a real estate investor and operator based in Florida, actively investing both locally and in a few Midwest and Northeast markets.I started my real estate journey a few years ago and have since built an operator-focused business across multiple strategies, including:📍 Vacant land acquisitions, primarily sourcing infill lots for home builders🏗️ Supporting builders with 185+ lot acquisitions, contributing to 1M+ sq ft of residential development🏠 Single-family rehabs & cosmetic flips💰 Working with private and self-directed IRA lenders on structured, asset-backed dealsMy background is in engineering and management (corporate roles in India and the U.S.), so I’m underwriting-driven and very systems-oriented.

I've been doing revenue management for 4+ years, currently across about 100+ and I've developed a framework for how I think about pricing on Airbnb that I wanted to share because I think a lot of hosts are leaving money on the table without realizing it.For context on where this comes from: when we take over pricing for a listing, our average revenue increase over the first 90 days is around 31%.

I’m planning to live there for the required 12 months, and my long-term goal is to eventually move into a larger multifamily—possibly a fourplex—while turning the current place into a rental. 

Eventually, low inventory and high direct mail costs pushed me to explore other strategies.2019–2021: I Began Cold Calling & Virtually Wholesaling: When skip tracing became more affordable, I scaled into several virtual markets and leaned heavily on cold calling.

We eventually took it back and now self-manage from afar.

Went from a shoebox-and-spreadsheet approach to Xero to eventually building my own bookkeeping tool out of frustration with paying for separate subscriptions per entity.I'm here to learn from people who've been doing this longer than I have - especially around commercial real estate, multi-entity management, and scaling a small portfolio.

This is one of those weeks where the headlines will try to pull your attention in ten different directions.Manufacturing data.Employment numbers.Retail sales.Jobless claims.The full jobs report Friday.Here’s the development that actually deserves your focus:The Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a rule that would allow local housing authorities and landlords to impose time limits and work requirements on Section 8 rental subsidies.What’s being discussed:• Time limits as short as two years• Work requirements up to 40 hours per week• Elderly and disabled tenants exempt• Adoption left to local housing authorities and participating property ownersRoughly 9 million Americans receive federal housing assistance.Supporters argue rental aid isn’t an entitlement and that time limits could promote mobility while freeing up vouchers for families stuck on long waiting lists.Critics argue most recipients who can work already do — wages simply haven’t kept pace with rent — and strict limits could increase housing instability during a period of record-high costs.The proposal is being published today and will be open for 60 days of public comment.Now zoom out.Housing is not a luxury product.It is infrastructure.When affordability tightens, policy pressure builds.

While in college at the University of South Carolina, I was working with a development group that specializes in building student housing and short-term rental properties in the Columbia area.